Ardnamurchan Area Blogs
Blogs (web logs) provide an ideal opportunity to explore the traditions, culture and wildlife of Wild Lochaber. We have put together a collection of local blogs and provide the titles and text snippets to give a taste of each entry with direct links to the main blog entry on the host website. We hope you will find time to explore the full articles and further information on the host blog sites.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any suggestions for blogs you would like to see here.
Sunart Community Company
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Oakwood is open We are delighted that Oakwood has been able to re-open. As before it is full of locally made craft items ranging from cards and framed watercolour paintings, to children’s toys and items made from uniquely printed fabric and Harris tweed. There is handmade jewellery and...
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Helping Hands Funding Since the CV19 lockdown, Lara van de Peer the Dail Mhor project officer has also been assisting the Community Council with the local community response. We are delighted to announce that the Community Company has secured an offer of a further £6,000 from Highlands &...
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Sunart Helping Hands – Mashed Potatoes to Micro-chips We are delighted that the community company was eligible to apply for funding to help respond to the Covid19 Crisis and was awarded £8,500 from Highlands & Islands Enterprise, as part of the Scottish Governments Supporting Communities...
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Sunart community benefit fund With the community in ‘covid lockdown’ and our March meeting postponed we thought it was high time we summarised some of the articles that have previously appeared in De tha Dol? regarding the Sunart Community Benefit Fund (SCBF). Readers will recall that this is...
The Sunart Diaries
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Ben Laga is a rocky peak on the northern shore of Loch Sunart in Ardnamurchan. At 512 metres it’s the second highest top (after Ben Hiant, 528 m) on Ardnamurchan proper . As such, it gets far fewer visitors than Ben Hiant, a fact reflected in the absence of erosion on the paths to the [...
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Wordless Wednesday posts are images from Ardnamurchan and the surrounding regions – Sunart, Morvern, Ardgour, Moidart and the Rough Bounds. No description is necessary but further details may be provided with the linked full-size image. I will try and ensure they were photographed in the same month...
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Ardnamurchan has had fabulous Spring weather during the Covid-19 lockdown, with day after day of sunshine and blue skies. Mid-March to mid-May were particularly fine. All good things must come to an end and there has been some wet and windy weather more recently. During the most recent...
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Wordless Wednesday posts are images from Ardnamurchan and the surrounding regions – Sunart, Morvern, Ardgour, Moidart and the Rough Bounds. No description is necessary but further details may be provided with the linked full-size image. I will try and ensure they were photographed in the same month...
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Wordless Wednesday posts are images from Ardnamurchan and the surrounding regions – Sunart, Morvern, Ardgour, Moidart and the Rough Bounds. No description is necessary but further details may be provided with the linked full-size image. I will try and ensure they were photographed in the same month...
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One of the benefits of the Covid-19 lockdown is the time it has provided to observe the local changes in the season as March segues into April and now May. Virtual meetings provide the opportunity for actual breaks. For the first time in perhaps three decades I can interrupt my writing or take...
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One of the benefits of the Covid-19 lockdown is the time it has provided to observe the local changes in the season as March segues into April and now May. Virtual meetings provide the opportunity for actual breaks. For the first time in perhaps three decades I can interrupt my writing or take...
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Wordless Wednesday posts are images from Ardnamurchan and the surrounding regions – Sunart, Morvern, Ardgour, Moidart and the Rough Bounds. No description is necessary but further details may be provided with the linked full-size image. I will try and ensure they were photographed in the same month...
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Wordless Wednesday posts are images from Ardnamurchan and the surrounding regions – Sunart, Morvern, Ardgour, Moidart and the Rough Bounds. No description is necessary but further details may be provided with the linked full-size image. I will try and ensure they were photographed in the same month...
Ardtornish Estate and Gardens, Self catering holidays Scotland
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Ardtornish Estate – Woodland Creation Programme – Phase 2IntroductionIn accordance with the best practice guidelines relating to stakeholder engagement, Ardtornish Estate hereby invites you to comment on its plans to further increase native woodland cover on the estate,...
Craigard Croft
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For the last four years I have been trying to work out how and why Donald Trump was elected President of the United States and why Boris A. P. Johnson persuaded more than half of voters that we should leave the EU and that they should elect him as Prime Minister of the UK. For...
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On Saturday Tobermory was still and quiet; we were still keeping our distance there were no visitors, no cruise ships, I had the ferry, "Loch Tarbert" to myself again and the inshore fishing boats were tied up in harbour. The economy is in stasis but we are all trying to stay safe.Back in February...
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First find a mouseHens (chickens in the USA) are highly intelligent, they can negotiate complex mazes in return for rewards, they learn quickly, for example they expect me to be out there in the late afternoon to feed them some grain and as soon as they see me around that time they come running...
Simon Willis
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I've added a mini series of videos to my YouTube channel (YouTube.com/AlwaysAnotherAdventure) called What Cylclists Don't Tell You and given it a playlist.I decided that experienced cyclists take lots of 'stuff' for granted, from types of clothing to gear-changing technique to getting comfortable...
The Adventures of Algy
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The mist came down, and for Algy - as for so many of his friends... (Friday, April 10, 2020 - 12:14)The mist came down, and for Algy - as for so many of his friends at the moment - everything which lay further than a few hundred yards away entirely vanished, and he was enclosed in his own wee world - and an exceedingly damp one at that!For those who may not have experienced this phenomenon, so...
